Topper Headon, Clash Drummer -- #1 Most Underrated Drummer Ever?

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	Topper Headon, Clash Drummer -- #1 Most Underrated Drummer Ever?

nvizzini

3-21-2007 6:07 PM

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difficult to overestimate Topper’s work on the Clash’s <I>London Calling</I> 
(esteemed by <I>Rolling Stone</I> as “The Greatest Album of the 80’s” and ranked 
eighth on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time). The physically 
diminutive, poorly-spoken, heroin-addicted drummer for the Clash was not the 
group’s original skins man, nor was he its last. Topper was fired in 1982 when 
his drug use became unmanageable, even as the Clash toured in support of “Rock 
the Casbah” (a song Topper himself had written). Despite his personal failings, 
his contribution to the music was tremendous, and his drumming remains an 
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